WhatsApp has an official API you can use already.

https://pypi.org/project/whatsapp-python/

That is not official, unmaintained since November 2024, and only applicable for the business API. It wouldn't allow someone to create a WhatsApp client for a non-Android/iOS platform.

>It wouldn't allow someone to create a WhatsApp client for a non-Android/iOS platform.

This is moving the goal posts.

The goal post was moved already because I said "when can I send messages" and not "when can my business send messages". Anyway, thanks for the link.

Looks like it is an API for the WhatsApp Business Platform.

(So not free, not for consumers)

https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messa...

You can just that a working script is run by crooks (and is not public)

Hopefully - never ever ever ever ever.

I do not want spam.

This is why iMessage is much better than SMS - there is an implicit cost to send. This is why there is 100x (my experience) iMessage spam than SMS spam. Easy to send messages -> spam

> better than SMS - there is an implicit cost to send

Funnily enough, people being charged per SMS but being allowed to send as much messages as they need on apps like WhatsApp is exactly why SMS/MMS is barely used on a large scale outside of North America.

I rarely receive any spam on my phone. WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal do have the occasional obvious bot, but all apps make it trivial to block and get rid of any of them.

All phone and internet services in the EU are connected to your personal identity document, similar to China. If you send spam, the police come to your house.

It’s already possible to make WhatsApp bots, if the API was official they could moderate it better if anything so I don’t see how it would help with spam